Teenage relationship abuse

The Teenage relationship abuse campaign, launched on 1 September 2011, and aims to prevent teenagers from becoming victims and perpetrators of abusive relationships.

Re-think views

The campaign encourages teenagers to re-think their views of acceptable violence, abuse or controlling behaviour in relationships and directs them to places for help and advice.

The This is abuse website gives teens the chance to discuss the issues with their peers and get access to third party support and advice. We are also running online discussion forums during the campaign with the support of our partners such as Against Violence and Abuse, Women’s Aid, Respect – men's advice line and Broken Rainbow.

Download support materials

Support materials for partners such as A3 posters, postcards, DVDs and a leaflet for parents and carers can be order from the Central Storage and Distribution Centre. Please email us for order details and product codes.

Or you can download the posters or the leaflet for parents and carers from our publications section.

Advice for schools and teenagers

The following documents contain advice for schools and teenagers on dealing with issues around teenage relationship abuse. We would like to thank Women’s Aid, Against Violence and Abuse and Womankind for their help in the development of these materials.

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Background

The teenage relationship abuse campaign originally ran in February and March 2010 and we will are re-running advertising on youth TV stations, in cinemas, on posters in schools, shopping and leisure centres and online.

In the Violence Against Women and Girls Action Plan the Home Office committed to launching a youth prevention campaign to tackle teenage relationship violence in September.